Liberal Europeans Demand Right to Vote in U.S. Elections

[The Straight Story]

Liberal Europeans Demand Right to Vote in U.S. Elections
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Thu, 2008-01-03 11:45

A quote from the editorial in the Brussels newspaper De Standaard, 3 January 2008

American presidential elections are not “home affairs.” American decisions have repercussions all over the globe. The American mortgage crisis affects banks in Europe. The insatiable American demand for oil makes the Arabian sheiks rich. The American refusal to care for the environment causes the North Pole ice to melt and coastal areas in Asia to flood. A weakened dollar and an immense budget deficit affect the global economy.

Hence, the world should be given the right to vote. Because the current situation is a blatant case of taxation without representation, against which the Americans rebelled in 1776. But of course the world will not be allowed to vote. The best we can hope for is that the Americans choose a leader who is deeply aware of the U.S.’s responsibility, as a superpower, for the rest of mankind.

The international community was able to limit America’s hegemony somewhat through organisations for international consultation, agreements and the corresponding judicial apparatus. But that system is in crisis, partly through the actions of the current American president.

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2825

[provis99]

1. Sounds good to me

If Europeans had voted too, we wouldn't have been saddled with brain-dead idiots like Reagan and Bush.

[rockymountaindem]

2. lol

That's funny.

[SteppingRazor]

3. I saw this earlier, and I said I'm cool with it, as long as all 300 million of us can vote...

in their elections!

:popcorn:

[Nikki Stone1]

4. General elections or the primaries too?

Maybe we could send a bunch of Belgians to Iowa?

[PsN2Wind]

5. Only if I'm entitled to their social benefits!!

n/t

[BlueJazz]

6. Hell...I wish WE couldn't vote in our Elections.

Americans do a pretty shitty job of chosing the people to run the USA.

[harmonicon]

7. remember being admired? it was better than being hated and feared.

[melody]

8. That's right now, the US globalist branch is in the midst of squashing us

The EU globalist branch will be in charge shortly.

So does this mean we then get to vote in their elections? Gosh, I guess not. :)

[LisaM]

9. Then we get to vote in China!

I suppose the number of people who vote in US elections would represent nothing more than a drop in the bucket in China, but hey! Why not?

[tritsofme]

12. What elections?

I don't think there are very many substantive elections in red China.

[angrycarpenter]

10. sounds like they think we are stupid

we did not all vote for GWB. We all will pay the cost for allowing them to steal the elections. But to suggest that we are too stupid to vote for a decent leader is rather insulting. Twice we have elected democrats to office just to see the results falsified. We are not stupid but as a people but we have been programed to believe that active opposition of the sitting president is wrong if not treasonous.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Why is this the second time the far right Brussels Journal has been quoted here today?

One person writes an editorial (in a centre-right newspaper), and people here take the far right Brussels Journal's word for it that it's "liberal Europeans", as if it's a movement.

The Brussels Journal calls itself "The Voice of Conservatism in Europe"; and if you look at its home page, you'll see it's anti-EU, anti-Muslim, anti-immigation, and basically 'anti-foreigner'.